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...testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien Hoa, a membership card from Madame Binh's Hot Shop Parlor, a Chieu Hoi safe-conduct pass for Viet Cong defectors and, of all things, a membership card in the Veterans of Foreign Wars. One upset veteran pushed his way to the microphone to announce: "Only 30% of ^ us believe Richard Nixon is President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Protest: A Week Against the War | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...linked this distaste for civil disruption to his defeat last November. "I have felt the sting of the moratoriums. I was identified with those people carrying Viet Cong flags. My patriotism had been questioned, and that makes people reluctant to vote for you," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gore Criticizes Civil Disruption Plans | 4/30/1971 | See Source »

Laszlo Pasztor '73, chairman of YAF at Harvard, denounced the treaty as a "propaganda tool" and told the Council. "If you endorse this treaty you will be supporting those forces who want a Viet Cong victory, not peace...

Author: By Joyce Heard, | Title: Cambridge Council Urges Withdrawal From Vietnam | 4/13/1971 | See Source »

...widely discussed case last spring, Army Lieut. James Duffy was tried for ordering his sergeant to kill an ARVN deserter and record him as a Viet Cong suspect. Justifying his action, Duffy explained: "I know in my case, platoon leaders never got any guidance on treatment of prisoners. The only thing we ever heard was to get more body count, kill more V.C. If you didn't have a lot of body counts, they would think you were a poor unit." The military jurors convicted Duffy of premeditated murder ?then were dismayed to find that he faced a mandatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Clamor Over Calley: Who Shares the Guilt? | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen and the hamlet chief. Farther north, in the Central Highlands, the seasoned North Vietnamese 28th Regiment temporarily overran Fire Base Six, capturing four U.S. advisers and killing or wounding some 200 ARVN troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Wan Edge of an Abyss | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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